2019 CTMA Year in Review

It was a banner year for the CTMA Program experiencing 214% growth in revenue and a 50% growth in the number of funded projects. NCMS partnered with many new government and industry partners on CTMA initiatives as word spread of the high-value impacts to the defense industrial base. Looking at the nature of the initiatives […]

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NCMS Partners with Industry to Enhance Readiness at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard

NCMS is pleased to announce that the following companies will be participants at the Technology Showcase at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility: 3D Systems, Inc. American Ceramic Technology, Inc. Atlas Copco Tools & Assembly Bechtel National BIONICLIFT Cisco Systems DIT-MCO International Eclypse International Faro Technologies GE Research GovSmart Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence […]

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Sources Sought: Medical Evacuation Trainer

NCMS is assisting the U.S. Army in seeking an industry partner that has the technology to design and develop a vehicle medical evacuation trainer.  This vehicle trainer is a part of the medium armored family of vehicles (FoV).  Vehicle trainers will support medical treatment and ground medical evaluation tasks.  The trainers will have the capability […]

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Big Winners! 

The DOD Maintenance Innovation Challenge (MIC) aims to elevate and expand the call for maintenance innovation to include not only new technology, hardware, and software, but also unique partnerships, resourcing strategies, business practices or processes that promise to make maintenance more capable, agile, and affordable.  MIC Overall Technology Winner – Air Force  Congratulations to the […]

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NCMS to host second Technology Showcase at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard

Look who will be joining us at the NCMS Technology Showcase in Pearl Harbor. The Showcase will take place on January 22-24, 2020 and will introduce needed maintenance and sustainment technologies to the shipyard.   Partnering with us will be:  Universal Synaptics  Temple Allen Industries  Verifisurf Software  Cabras Marine Corporation  Swagelok   Markforged   GovSmart  New River […]

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Meet Senior Project Manager Michael DeHeer

Mike DeHeer feels right at home in his new job as a Senior Project Manager at NCMS. Born in New Jersey, he and his family then moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina and on to Roanoke, Virginia near the Blue Ridge Mountains. Staying in the Southeast, Mike attended Virginia Tech for his Bachelor of Science […]

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Maintenance Symposium Identifies the Future of Maintenance and Sustainment

With almost 1,300 participants, the 2020 DOD Maintenance Symposium brought together maintenance and sustainment leaders from all branches of service and industry, as well as maintainers who daily maintain warfighter readiness. This year’s theme, Ready Systems @ The Speed of Relevance was echoed throughout the event by keynote speakers, panelists, and breakout leaders.   Steven Morani, […]

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The Air Force and NCMS Member MELD win big at the Maintenance Innovation Challenge

Ann Arbor, MI — The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) announced today that it has been awarded a fourth consecutive Commercial Technologies for Maintenance Activities (CTMA) Cooperative Agreement (CA) from the US Department of Defense (DOD). This competitive award extends NCMS’ 22-year record of success as the CTMA program’s managing partner. The contract is […]

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